Comics Raw and Cooked
The delights of freedom and the power of precision are on display in new works from Lynda Barry and Chris…
Barnes & Noble Reads
The Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn
The uniquely chilling tales of an almost forgotten master of spectral fiction.
Oliver Sacks
A conversation withneurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks about his latest book, The Mind’s Eye, an exploration of themysteries of…
Amitava Kumar
The novelist and criticdiscusses the “ecology of terror” and the challenge of writing withhonesty.
The Weekend
The release of a terroristraises uncomfortable questions about Germany’s past, and present.
Our Kind of Traitor
The author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy returnswith a characteristically compelling…
Create Dangerously
The award-winning noveliston the suffering in her Haitian birthplace, and the role of the immigrantartist.
Where Good Ideas Come From
Astimulating and wide-ranging investigation of the genesis of innovation, by aculturally omnivorous reader and thinker (you’ll learn a lot).
The Wilding
MotherNature’s dark side comes to the fore in Benamin Percy’s tale of a woodlandexcursion gone wrong.
The Honor Code
A philosopher argues for honor as a key moral concept—and as the catalyst for moral revolutions.
You Were Wrong
An obnoxious stepfather, a lovely burglar, and an overwhelmed young math teacher wrestle with words.
The Warmth of Other Suns
An impassioned history of the Great Migration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West…
Zero History
A slyly potent thriller that cocks an eyebrow at our trend-maddened culture.
Three Stations
Arkady Renko, the hero of Gorky Park, fights age and a corrupt Moscow in a dark thriller.
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal traces his Jewish family—and their collection of Japanese netsuki—through 19th- and 20th-century European history.
James Baldwin
Five essential reads from one of the defining voices of a century.
My Hollywood
An evergreen recipe for engrossing domestic drama: take one white mother and child; add a trusted and beloved servant of…
The Cross of Redemption
Previously uncollected writings by one of the most eloquent of all 20th-century American writers illuminate politics, sport, culture—and the author…
Super Sad True Love Story
A tale of love’s labors in a New York of the near future, from the celebrated comic novelist.